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<article>
<articleinfo>
<volumenum>2004</volumenum>
<issuenum>1</issuenum>
<publisher><publishername>The Linux Documentation Project</publishername></publisher>
<pubdate>2004-01-07</pubdate>
<title>The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News</title>
</articleinfo>
<para>The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News wishes its readers a
happy year 2004.</para>
<sect1 id="new-proposed">
<title>New document proposals</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Nathan Rosenquist submitted <ulink url="http://www.rsnapshot.org/howto.html">a draft</ulink> for a HOWTO accompanying the <command>rsnapshot</command> program. He awaits your comments.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="updated-docs">
<title>Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>The <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Windows-Newsreaders-under-Linux-HOWTO/">Windows Newsreaders under Linux HOWTO</ulink> v2.11 by Daniel Quintiliani focuses on getting the sound right.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>From Rick Moen we published v1.7.4 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html">Linux User Group HOWTO</ulink> and v1.4.16 of the <ulink url="http://tldp.org/FAQ/WordPerfect-Linux-FAQ">WordPerfect on Linux FAQ</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Greg Lindahl's <ulink url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Outlook-to-Unix-Mailbox.html">MS Outlook to Unix Mailbox Conversion mini HOWTO</ulink> v1.3 details the conversion of MS Outlook (not Outlook Express) mailboxes to UNIX mailboxes using Mozilla or IMAP.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>More nifty things you can do with Bash in Mendel Cooper's <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/">Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide</ulink> v2.3.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The <ulink
url="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Module-HOWTO/">Linux Loadable Kernel Module
HOWTO</ulink> by Bryan Henderson is now at v1.05. This revision has
information on module.h and -DMODULE, typo fixes and adds
information on kallsyms.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The revised <ulink
url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/html/index.html">LDP
Author Guide</ulink> with the separated sections on authoring process
(main guide) and technical HOWTOs (appendix). Now at
v4.0.11.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Machtelt Garrels's <ulink
url="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html">Introduction
to Linux - A Hands on Guide</ulink> has been updated with a few changes
in the document for better presentation of the
content. The document is now at v1.9</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>From <ulink url="http://es.tldp.org/" />: Antonio Villalón Huerta published v2.1 of <ulink url="http://es.tldp.org/Manuales-LuCAS/doc-unixsec/">Seguridad en Unix y Redes</ulink>.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="tldp-world">
<title>News in The LDP world</title>
<sect2 id="news-item1">
<title>Active Brazilian TLDP effort</title>
<para>The resurrection of our Portuguese-speaking colleagues LDP
activity in Brazil. Check <ulink url="http://br.tldp.org"
/>.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="news-item2">
<title>DocBook quick reference card</title>
<para>A quick reference card for users of DocBook is available at
<ulink
url="http://ydirson.free.fr/docbook/docbook.refcard.pdf">http://ydirson.free.fr/docbook/docbook.refcard.pdf</ulink>.
A <ulink
url="http://ydirson.free.fr/docbook/docbook.compact-refcard.pdf">compact
reference card</ulink> is also available.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="discussions">
<title>Discussions on TLDP lists</title>
<sect2 id="discussion1">
<title>LDP unreachable author problems</title>
<para>Jean-PhilippeGu<47>rard, the howto translations coordinator for the
French project traduc.org <ulink
url="http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:6343:200401:jpgoadlgfalflpipklib">said</ulink>
that traduc.org would like to publish the Compressed-TCP Sessions using
SSH-like tools HOWTO but wanted information regarding the license under
which it was published and was not able to reach the author. David
Lawyer responded saying that The LDP was facing similar problems and
that they would be of little help.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="feedback">
<title>HOWTO contribute to TLDP</title>
<para>The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) is working on developing
free, high quality documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. If
you want to help TLDP, consider joining
<email>discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org</email>.</para>
<para>Help us create this newsletter. We need volunteers who follow the
community (mailing lists, newsgroups, web channels) and report events
related to free software documentation. Write to us at
<email>feedback@en.tldp.org</email>.</para>
<para>The LDP Weekly News is compiled and edited by Machtelt Garrels and
Y Giridhar Appaji Nag with help from several other people.</para>
</sect1>
</article>